This new bilingual version of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff' is beautifully presented in Navajo and English, with warmly expressive, humorous illustrations of the main story characters: Three different sized goats, a rickety wooden bridge, and the mean Troll.

Visitors to this most unusual coffee shop can hear his take on Billy Goats Gruff, the Simonside Dwarf and the Longwitton Worm today along with some tales of spooky goings on for Halloween on Saturday, October 30.

In the 1963 Open Court reader, titled Reading Is Fun, which was designed for the second semester of 1st grade, at least half the entries were classics, including Aesop's fables ("The Fox and the Grapes," "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"); Mother Goose rhymes; folk tales ("The Little Red Hen," "The Gingerbread Boy," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "The Three Bears"), and poems (by Vachel Lindsay, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Christina Rossetti).

Noted fantasy author Yolen and her musician/writer son follow their first updated fairy tale novel, Pay the Piper, with this fast and funny story that combines elements from "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" as well as Scandinavian troll legends.

Unfortunately, the three billy goats gruff have been issued with an ASBO (anti-social behaviour order) for stealing the rabbits' food and chewing the hanging baskets so we've had to banish them to the fields but the three little pigs along with a varied collection of other animals will all be there to welcome visitors.

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